Cluttons LLP is an International firm of chartered

surveyors Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. A land surveying professional is c ...

and property consultants based in Central

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major s ...

and operating throughout the UK. Established in 1765, Cluttons is one of the oldest established firms of Chartered Surveyors in the UK, and played an important role during the establishment of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Cluttons is a limited liability partnership with equity partners controlling the firms direction. James Gray is the current Managing Partner of Cluttons LLP. Cluttons LLP previously had a presence in the Middle East . The business employs over 250 people. In May 2017 it was reported to have a "massive" pension fund deficit and to be submitting to a "rescue takeover".

History

Cluttons traces its roots back to 1765, when William Clutton took over his father-in-law's surveying business in

Sussex Sussex (), from the Old English (), is a historic county in South East England that was formerly an independent medieval Anglo-Saxon kingdom. It is bounded to the west by Hampshire, north by Surrey, northeast by Kent, south by the English C ...

and began trading under his own name. One of those grandsons, John Clutton, moved to London in 1837 to found the London business. John's brothers remained in Sussex to concentrate on the land agency business, which continues today as RH & RW Clutton, an entirely separate firm. John Clutton, born in 1809, was a joint founder and the first president of the Surveyors’ Association (later the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors). He died in 1896, leaving the business to his successors, including four further generations of the Clutton family. After the Second World War, the firm opened a commercial office in Grosvenor Street, Mayfair. The 1970s saw Cluttons expand into the Middle East. Cluttons now has representation in Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Bahrain and Oman. Cluttons London Residential Agency (CLRA) was formed in 1992 by Robin Paterson after the acquisition of several Barnard Marcus London Offices and an office in Hong Kong. With funding from NatWest Ventures and Marco Polo Developments, a Singapore-based property investment company, CLRA opened new offices in London and Singapore over the next four years.Property100.co.uk. Hamptons. Available online a

Accessed 28 April 2017. In 1997, Cluttons merged with Daniel Smith, another long-established (1775) traditional management and general practice partnership. Daniel Smith's approximately 100 partners and staff brought the total complement of the combined firm to over 500 people. Today, Cluttons remains a private, independent business, wholly owned by the partners. The firm became a Limited Liability Partnership on 1 April 2005.

References

External links

Cluttons UK and global website
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